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By Joey Copponi
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Over the 120 years of recorded statistics in Major League Baseball, there have only ever been two games in which a starting pitcher pitched exactly 2 1/3 innings, allowed exactly 12 baserunners, and surrendered exactly 11 earned runs. Both of those starts came from Tanner Houck of the Boston Red Sox this season.
Beyond that, the right-hander is the first pitcher in MLB history to allow 11-plus runs in a start of fewer than three innings twice in the same season.
Houck represented the Red Sox in last year's All Star Game, touting a 2.54 ERA through 19 starts at the time. Since then, the right-hander's statistics have told a very different story.
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Following the break, the second half of Houck's 2024 left something to be desired. In his final eleven starts of the year, the 27-year-old posted a 4.23 ERA and opponents put up a batting average of .263 against him.
Houck would surely take those numbers over the ones he has put up to start this season.
This season, Tanner Houck has an 8.04 ERA through nine starts, allowing 10 home runs (just one shy of his total from last season) while opponents are hitting .318 through his first 43 2/3 innings.
"Probably the most lost I've ever been," Houck told reporters after his 11-run implosion against the Detroit Tigers on Monday. "I'm just not getting the job done, which weighs on me heavily."
At this time last year, Houck had pitched 14 1/3 more innings, allowed 25 fewer runs, had given up nine fewer homers, and had racked up 25 more strikeouts.
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